· Private foundation
Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ODYSSEY AFTER SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM | $22,700 |
| RFISD ROCKPORT FULTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| ROCKPORT SONGWRITER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ROCKPORT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $7,550 |
| THE GROW HAUS | $7,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCKPORTFULTON | $5,700 |
| CAMP ARANZAZU | $5,000 |
| Women's Shelter of South Texas dba The Purple Door | $4,000 |
| ROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARITANS INC | $3,500 |
| THE JUNE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| COLORADO ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 25% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TOTHE ODYSSEY AFTER-SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM5× · 2019–2024 · $73k · revenue +59%
- BCBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $72k · revenue +1%
- TGTHE GROWHAUS4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- EFEARTHSAVER FUNDone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -94%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2023 · $86k
- IGIRIS GLOBALone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
The organization temporarily feeds colorado pets, allowing families to increase their ability to care for pets with the goal of keeping them out of shelters and with their families.
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…
Food bank of the rockies ignites the power of community to nourish people facing food insecurity.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Colorado Kitty Coalition's (CKC) current purpose/mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home cats in need. Through a network of dedicated foster homes, we provide them with love, safety and a chance for a loving home. We commit to…
C.A.R.E's mission is practicing excellence in the animal care, education, and advocacy to connect pets to their people.
Impact development fund helps people within our underserved communities seek fulfillment for themselves and their families by providing access to affordable living. we create these opportunities by delivering flexible capital to nonprofit…
Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.
Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Boulder County and the most unlike its peers is Backline Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EARTHSAVER FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ODYSSEY AFTER-SCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRIS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds THE GROWHAUS ↗
- Who funds GIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HFCC INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds Camp Aranzazu Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT-FULTON GOOD SAMARINC ↗
- Who funds CASHMERE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The June Project ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LONGMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT SONGWRITER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN OF LONGMONT INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT FULTON ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rockport Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE GRANDIN SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Ed Rachal Foundation · Coastal Bend Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Margaret Sue Rust Foundation · Barrow Foundation · Behmann Brothers Foundation · Nystrom Family Foundation · Estill Foundation · Tres Grace Family Foundation · Allen Lovelace Moore and Blanche Davis Moore Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Steps Foundation fka The Powers Private Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.